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Here are two picayune but quite common details of the separated life that Culturebox, for one, has never seen on a TV series before.
The cover story uses the trial of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy to slam the proliferation of picayune ethics laws.
News & World Report ("The Return of a Deadly Drug Called Horse," 1989); the San Francisco Chronicle ("Heroin Making a Resurgence in the Bay Area," 1990); the New York Times ("Heroin Is Making Comeback," 1990); Time magazine ("Heroin Comes Back," 1990); the Los Angeles Times ("As Cocaine Comes off a High, Heroin May Be Filling Void," 1991); the Cleveland Plain Dealer ("Police, Social Workers Fear Heroin 'Epidemic,' " 1992); Rolling Stone ("Heroin: Back on the Charts," 1992); the Seattle Times ("Heroin People: Deadly Drug Back in Demand," 1992); NPR ("Heroin Makes Comeback in United States," 1992); Newsweek ("Heroin Makes an Ominous Comeback," 1993); the Trenton Record ("A Heroin Comeback," 1993); the Washington Post ("Smack Dabbling," 1994); the New York Times ("Heroin Finds a New Market Along Cutting Edge of Style," 1994); USA Today ("Smack's Back," 1994); the Buffalo News ("More Dopes Picking Heroin," 1994); the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ("Heroin Makes a Comeback," 1995); the Times-Picayune ("Heroin Is Back as Major Problem," 1996); the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ("State Gets Deadly Dose as Heroin Reappears," 1996); Rolling Stone again ("Heroin," 1996); and the Los Angeles Times ("Heroin's New Popularity Claims Unlikely Victims," 1996).
News and Time gushed about "Clintonism," the Standard offers its own definition (pegged to the State of the Union): "Clintonism transforms your most parochial worries into matters of state," dealing with picayune issues rather than genuine ones.
Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."
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